underreport
verb
underreport is a verb meaning “To report a number falsely, making it smaller than it ought to be, especially to do so intentionally” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-N-D-E-R-R-E-P-O-R-T and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does underreport mean?
verb
- 1
To report a number falsely, making it smaller than it ought to be, especially to do so intentionally
- 2
As a group, to report something less frequently than it actually occurs
Women tend to underreport rape.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce underreport?
- US
Underreport has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-underreport.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of underreport
- underreports present, singular, he/she/it
- underreporting participle, present
- underreported participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is underreport?
Underreport appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does underreport come from?
From under- + report.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).